[NittanyLion]

If you only equalize when the disparity is in a certain direction, that most certainly is discriminatory.

Treating two people equally is to discriminate against one of them? Liberals make the same argument every day to advance economic redistribution schemes.

[aristeides]

If the majority in Lawrence had merely wanted to equalize in both directions, they could very easily have included O'Connor's equal protection rationale in the majority opinion. They explicitly refused to do that.